2026 Thoughts
✦ October
Why Does a Chicken, I Don’t Know Why
A line from a Pooh song, and what changed when I stopped needing to know why.
Acceptance
2026 Thoughts
✦ October
What Is Beyond?
I spent much of my life asking what was beyond the next achievement, experience, or stage.
Illness showed me another kind of beyond—and made the present moment feel enough.
2026 Thoughts
✦ October
Masterly Inactivity
During recovery, I learned that not every problem needs another action. Sometimes the wiser choice is to create the right conditions, wait, and know when enough has already been done.
2026 Thoughts
✦ September
Complex vs. Complicated
I had been treating complex life problems as complicated problems—believing that if I understood enough variables, I could control the outcome. Recovery taught me that sometimes, the boundary moves.
